Category: Farming Guides

If you’re like a lot of Year 1 Guardians, ever since The Taken King was released you’ve been singing a very wistful song: Where is my Weekly Heroic? Where is my farming song? Where is that promised loot? Where have all the strange coins gone? Thanks to all of you for indulging me there, and thanks to Paula Cole for twisting my heartstrings. Moving right along… Year 2 Guardians may not be aware of this, but there was a time when we could run a Weekly Heroic Strike for a guaranteed 9 Strange Coins per character, yielding an easy 27

Published on: Jan 14, 2015 @ 2:13 With the Iron Banner upon us, you’re going to need a lot of Glimmer to pay for Lord Saladin’s criminally priced goods. Even without the Iron Banner gear, Destiny offers many other expensive items such as the Heavy Ammo Synthesis and Rare Fusion Rifles for the Pocket Infinity Exotic bounty (both from the Gunsmith). If you need help with farming in general, check out this guide. [divider] Exclusion Zone The Mars mission “The Exclusion Zone” provides a great way to get a lot of money fast. As you can see from the video above, you can easily earn thousands

Published on: Oct 23, 2014 @ 2:32 Farming… it’s something we all try, at least once. Sometimes it turns into a bad habit, or worse, an addiction. [divider] There’s an Easier Way To make your farming experience easier, this really simple video guide will show you how to just focus on a few nodes that you can come back to again and again, thus allowing you to farm indefinitely! If you’re in need of a Planetary materials or chests, remember this guide the next time you’re out in the wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6sU6Xs0INc Steps: Choose Patrol on the Planet you’d like to farm at. Find an area

Published on: Oct 13, 2014 @ 11:30 Strange Coins, Ascendant Materials (Energy & Shards), and Motes of Light are level 20+ materials. Once you hit level 20, Ascendant materials will be required to increase your Light level (via armor upgrades). Strange Coins and Motes of Light will be used to buy high-level armor, such as the Exotics sold by Xûr. [divider]How To Acquire? Ascendant materials can’t be farmed like regular materials, and mostly are acquired through specific activities that take a significant amount of time. A Public Event gold-tier rating each day, which can be completed on each character, will reward you with Ascendant materials. After your first completion, they

Published on: Sep 30, 2014 @ 15:34 If you’re in need of Spinmetal, Helium Filaments, or Spirit Bloom, the following videos show how easy it is to gather them indefinitely. You’ll also be able to do this for chests as well. This will likely be patched soon, so take advantage of this while you can. Videos: Endless chests & infinite materials This method of farming works anywhere that you can collect and quickly leave before the item disappears. For other Destiny materials, our complete Material farming guide has you covered! [divider]Datto Talks Crucible In other news, Datto has an excellent breakdown as usual about

Published on: Sep 28, 2014 @ 21:23 We’ve shared a handful of farming tutorials in the past, but in this article we’ll provide you all with a complete and comprehensive guide specifically for Materials. We’ll go over the Materials in Destiny that are essential to upgrading your items as well as the best spots to gather them. [divider] Planetary Materials These materials can be found in the environment or in chests. Spinmetal will be on Earth, Helium Filaments on the Moon, Spirit Bloom on Venus, and Relic Iron on Mars. Patrol activities on each planet are ideal for exploring and gathering Materials. You

Published on: Sep 25, 2014 @ 23:44 With the most recent patch, Bungie has made it more difficult for some people to acquire very quick loot via the “loot cave” exploit. It had a good run, but ultimately this extremely quick way to earn loot was just not what Bungie intended and they wanted to reduce “the effectiveness of a humbling number of economy exploits.” “Shooting at a black hole for hours on end isn’t our dream for how Destiny is played,” the Destiny Dev Team wrote. “Expect changes soon which decrease the efficiency of cave farming and correspondingly increase engram drops from completing activities.”

Published on: Sep 21, 2014 @ 12:56 nJoi Gaming has an in-depth guide for gaining reputation fast; With this method you can reach up to 800+ rep an hour for any Faction! If you’re wondering which Faction you should align yourself with, check out this article. Form a 3 Man Fireteam, split Cosmodrome into 3 parts, each member takes a location – The Skywatch, the Mothyards/Steppes, The Divide/Rocketyard. Spread out to be able to cover as much area per player as possible. VIP‘s spawn in Rocketyard, Skywatch, and the Steppes by spawn – never abandon VIP or Kill Everything patrols. Others can be abandoned if nobody